I originally made and posted this on my facebook account last December 18, 2011. I am re-posting it here. This was during the height of the antagonistic mumbo jumbo between the President and the Chief Justice (now ex-Chief Justice). 17 more words

JPE’s Memoir, is a narration of political events that bedevil the nation beginning 1924, when a poor boy, Juanito Furagganan, JPE’s childhood name, was born in barrio Mission in the town of Gonzaga, a sandy, coastal, fishing village situated at the mouth of the Mission River, Cagayan, up to the historical impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona of the Supreme Court this year (2012). 2,711 more words

I have understood that most of the members of the House of Representatives would blindly follow the will and desire of the President. The lower house has the reputation to do what the President wants – no matter what. 280 more words

Forgiveness has been a running theme of Filipino novels, movies and telenovelas that it was not a big surprise that a number of bleeding hearts beg that the convicted Chief Justice be spared from further punishment. 335 more words